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...down, but the challenge of melding 95 very young men into a whole, making each man's vision of himself interdependent with those of his teammates. For all its excesses-and football has more than its share of faults-the sport can be, at its best, a social compact of a high order. Creating this bond is what Bear Bryant excels at, and for this he draws on insights and instincts he has developed over 35 years...
...that were technologically competitive. Today it has just 1.7% of the U.S. market. AMC's only new models this year are the Renault 181, which it is importing from France, and a four-wheel-drive subcompact. By 1982 AMC may be phasing out the existing subcompact Spirit and compact Concord, leaving it with a Renault-designed small car to be built at its only surviving passenger car plant, in Kenosha, Wis. American Motors will probably become more and more of a French company as the '80s progress...
...been the auto industry's mainstay since 1954, will be virtually dead. Replacing it will be smaller power plants such as the L-4 and V-6 engines in the X-cars. Moreover, almost none of the new U.S.-made models will be larger than today's compact Ford Fairmont. Unfortunately, now that cars will no longer resemble fortresses on wheels, there will be less protection in an accident. Two weeks ago, NHTSA reported that ten out of twelve small cars failed a test in which they crashed into a wall at 35 m.p.h...
Often enough, the story lines come together in an apt, compact resolution to a wondrously complex plot. Toward the end of the past season, for example, the twine of stories looked hopelessly snarled. Cliff Barnes, now taking his revenge as an assistant district attorney, had Jock indicted for the murder, 28 years earlier, of Southfork Ranch Hand Hutch McKinney. But voilà Digger Barnes, on his deathbed, confessed to Miss Ellie that he had shot Hutch for planning to run off with Digger's wife Rebecca, who was carrying Hutch's child-Pamela...
Environmentalists, women, drivers, moderates and premature smokers beware: Ronald Reagan is coming to your town, equipped with the big Mo, the big stick and the big compact. This is one show that may not have a happy ending...